A report on McGill University

James McGill, the original benefactor of McGill University.

The first Principal of McGill College, The Rt. Rev. Dr. George Mountain

Sir John William Dawson, Principal of McGill University, 1855–1893

The Arts Building, completed in 1843 and designed by John Ostell, is the oldest building on campus

McGill University and Mount Royal, 1906, Panoramic Photo Company

The Second University Company prior to their departure for France

Stained Glass Great War Memorial entrance to the Blackader-Lauterman Library of Architecture and Art

The recently renovated McTavish Street is a critical artery connecting the lower campus to the upper campus

Roddick Gates act as the main entrance to the downtown campus

Built in 1892, Old Chancellor Day Hall houses the Faculty of Law

A hockey game on campus in 1884, just seven years after McGill students wrote the then-new game's first rule book, with the Arts Building, Redpath Museum, and Morrice Hall (then the Presbyterian College) visible

Solin Hall, situated in Saint-Henri near Lionel-Groulx station, serves as an off-campus apartment-style dorm.

Macdonald Campus under construction in 1906

The newly built McGill University Health Centre at the Glen Site

Parc Rutherford at night. The Genome Building (left), Wong Building (middle), and McTavish Reservoir (right) are seen in the background.

The laboratory of Rutherford, early 20th century

Radon, discovered at McGill by physicist Ernest Rutherford

The Falcon, a statue outside of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, part of the McLennan–Redpath Library Complex

Elizabeth Wirth Music Building, also a library, sits adjacent to the old Strathcona Music Building

PhD candidates march at Commencement in McGill's distinctive scarlet regalia.

Opening of the Student Union building, 1906

McGill announces new name for men's varsity sports teams

3rd prime minister of Canada Sir John Abbott (BCL, 1847).

7th prime minister of Canada Sir Wilfrid Laurier (BCL, 1864).

Inventor of the game of basketball James Naismith (BA, 1887).

Co-inventor of the charge-coupled device and Nobel prize laureate in Physics Willard Boyle (BSc, 1947; MSc 1948; PhD 1950).

Emmy Award winner known for his portrayal of Captain Kirk in the Star Trek franchise William Shatner (BComm, 1952).

Balzan Prize winner, referred to as "the founder of neuropsychology" Brenda Milner (PhD, 1952)

Grammy Award winner and poet Leonard Cohen (BA, 1955).

6th President of Latvia Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (PhD, 1965).

48th Prime Minister of Egypt Ahmed Nazif (PhD, 1983).

Former astronaut and 29th governor general of Canada Julie Payette (BEng, 1986).

Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio (BEng, 1986; MSc, 1988; PhD, 1991).

The current and 23rd prime minister of Canada Justin Trudeau (BA, 1994).

Former international president of Médecins Sans Frontières Joanne Liu (MDCM, 1991; IMHL, 2014).

English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Montreal

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Second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec.

Jacques Cartier at Hochelaga. Arriving in 1535, Cartier was the first European to visit the area.

French authorities surrender the city of Montreal to the British after the Articles of Capitulation was signed in 1760.

View of Lachine Canal in 1826, a year after it opened. It bypassed the rapids west of the city, linking Montreal with other continental markets.

Political protests from Tories led to the burning of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal in 1849.

An anti-conscription rally in Montreal, 1917. During both World Wars, the city saw protest against the implementation of conscription.

Lighting of the Olympic Torch inside Montreal's Olympic Stadium. The city hosted the 1976 Summer Olympics.

The island of Montreal at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa rivers.

Winters in Montreal bring cold, snowy, windy, and at times, icy weather.

Many colonial era buildings can be found in Old Montreal with several dating as far back as the late 17th century.

Habitat 67 is a model community and housing complex developed for Expo 67 World Fair.

Map of boroughs & neighbourhoods on the island of Montreal.

A view of Downtown Montreal from Mont Royal. Many neighbourhoods, including downtown, are located in the borough of Ville-Marie.

Place Jacques-Cartier is a major public square and attraction in Old Montreal.

View of Mont-Royal's eastern slope from the George-Étienne Cartier Monument. The park is one of Montreal's largest open space reserves.

The Port of Montreal is one of the largest inland ports in the world, handling over 26 million tonnes of cargo annually.

Tour de la Bourse has been home to the Montreal Exchange from 1965 to 2018, subsequently also including offices of various companies, entities and professional firms.

Montreal Fireworks Festival is the world's largest annual fireworks festival. The city hosts a number of festivals annually.

View of the Notre-Dame Basilica from Place d'Armes. The number of churches in Montreal led it to be called "the city of a hundred steeples".

Opened in 1996, the Bell Centre is a sports and entertainment complex, and also serves as the home arena for the Montreal Canadiens.

Montreal is the site of the Canadian Grand Prix, an annual Formula One auto race.

The Olympic Stadium was built for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. It is used by MLS's CF Montréal for select games.

Completed in 1878, Montreal City Hall is the seat of local government.

Established in 1821, McGill University is the oldest operating university in Montreal.

Université de Montréal from the Montreal Metro station. The institution is the largest university in the city.

Montreal serves as a hub for Quebec's autoroute system of controlled-access highways.

A train departs from Acadie station. The Montreal Metro has 68 stations and four lines.

An Air Canada flight flies past the company's corporate headquarters, located at Montréal–Trudeau International Airport.

Central Station is a major inter-city and commuter rail hub for the city.

The McGill Ghetto is in the extreme southwestern portion of the borough, its name being derived from the fact that it is home to thousands of McGill University students and faculty members.

Golden Square Mile

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Nostalgic name given to an urban neighbourhood developed principally between 1850 and 1930 at the foot of Mount Royal, in the west-central section of downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

McIntyre's Cragruie, built on 10 acres off McGregor Street c.1880, demolished 1930

Herbert Molson House. Designed by architect Robert Findlay in 1912.

Surrender of Montreal to the British, 1760

The Montreal townhouse of David Ross on the Champ de Mars, circa 1812

Donegana's Hotel on Notre-Dame Street. Built in 1821 as a home for William and Charlotte (de Lotbinière) Bingham. As a hotel, it was the largest in the British colonies until burnt in the riots of 1849

The Bank of Montreal on Place d'armes, founded in 1817 by one French and seven British merchants. It served as the national bank of Canada up until 1934

An all too familiar sight of a fire in Old Montreal: Hayes House burning on Dalhousie Square (1852), up until then a favourite meeting place of the early Square Milers

Montreal in 1832, showing the farmland on which the Square Mile was built

Beaver Hall, home of Joseph Frobisher. Built 1792, destroyed by fire in 1847. The Beaver Club held many dinners here

Simon McTavish's house, Mount Royal, built 1800

Piedmont (rear view), off Pine Avenue and Durocher Street. Built c.1820, best associated with the Frothingham family

Terrace Bank, Sherbrooke Street. Built 1837, for John Redpath

William Workman's house on Sherbrooke Street, Montreal. Built 1842, demolished 1952

Kildonan Hall was typical in style of the houses that once lined west Sherbrooke Street in the 1840s

Homestead, Dorchester Street. Built 1858, for Harrison Stephens

Ravenscrag, built by Sir Hugh Allan in 1863, as seen from the west

Sir Hugh Allan's drawing room at Ravenscrag

Sir George Drummond's House, built in the 1880s on Sherbrooke Street, at the corner of Metcalfe Street. Torn down in 1930, the site was used as a car wash

Lord Shaughnessy's House, reduced in size but saved from demolition in 1973; now the Canadian Centre for Architecture

Lord Mount Stephen's home on Drummond Street. Built in 1880, and afterwards inherited by his niece, Elsie Meighen, it was saved from demolition when it was purchased by three anglophone businessmen who created the Mount Stephen Club in 1928.

James Ross with his family outside their Peel Street home; built 1892

The grounds of James Ross house, Peel Street, 1926–27. In 1953, the city extended McGregor Street through these gardens

Mount Royal Club, Sherbrooke Street; founded in 1899 after the leaders of the Square Mile felt that the St. James Club had become "too overcrowded"

Lord Atholstan's house on Sherbrooke Street

Charles Hosmer's house on Drummond Street, 1901

Garden party at the Meighen's house, 1908

J.K.L. Ross House, Peel Street; built 1910

Sir Rodolphe Forget's house on Du Musée Avenue, built 1912

Sir Vincent and Lady Meredith converted their home, Ardvana (above), into a rehabilitation centre for Canadian soldiers returning from the Front

The Molson Bank on St. James Street, Montreal, in 1872

St. James Street, the financial centre of Montreal at its peak in 1895

Built in 1931, the Sun Life Building on Dorchester Square was in its time the largest edifice in the British Empire

Marjory Clouston on Sherbrooke Street with Drummond Street leading up to Mount Royal behind her, 1902

Drummond Street in 2009, looking down from Mount Royal towards Sherbrooke

The Royal Victoria Hospital could soon be sold to real estate developers contravening the caveat that the land be used for hospitals only

The Sochaczevski family bought Francis Redpath House in 1986, with intention to demolish it, and despite signing an agreement to maintain it, allowed the house fall into disrepair over the course of 28 years. It was demolished in 2014.

Many of the remaining mansions, such as the James Ross House, today known as Chancellor Day Hall, are today owned by McGill University.

McGill University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

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McIntyre Medical Building in the heart of McGill's downtown campus

McGill University Health Centre's super hospital complex at the Glen Site opened in 2015

The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is one of the constituent faculties of McGill University.

McGill University Health Center's hospital complex - Glen site

Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal

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Hospital in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Surgeons Norman Bethune, Arthur Vineberg and Perron assisting Edward William Archibald in an operation, 1933

Specialist nurse at 18-bed 'Fresh Air School' for children with TB, 1939

The Royal Vic from McGill College Avenue

The Hersey Pavilion was designed by Edward & William Sutherland Maxwell, 1905. It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada, 1997

It forms the biggest base hospital of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), which is affiliated with McGill University.

Desautels Faculty of Management

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The Bronfman Building houses undergraduate classes and features a garden.

The Desautels Faculty of Management is a faculty of McGill University.

University of Toronto

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Public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

Charter granted by King George IV in 1827, establishing King's College.

A Sopwith Camel aircraft rests on the Front Campus lawn in 1918.

Soldiers' Tower, a memorial to alumni fallen in the World Wars, contains a 51-bell carillon.

The neoclassical Convocation Hall is characterized by its domed roof and Ionic-pillared rotunda.

Old Vic, the main building of Victoria College, typifies the Richardsonian Romanesque style.

The Sandford Fleming Building contains offices of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.

The Munk School of Global Affairs encompasses programs and research institutes for international relations.

The Naylor Building contains offices for the university's Department of Medicine.

Robarts Library, a Brutalist structure, houses the university's main collection for humanities and social sciences.

The AeroVelo Atlas won the Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition in 2013.

The discovery of stem cells by McCulloch and Till is the basis for all modern stem cell research.

The Donnelly Centre is part of the Discovery District, one of the world's largest biotechnology research clusters.

The University of Toronto Rowing Club trains in Toronto Harbour for the 1924 Summer Olympics. The team won silver for Canada.

Generations of students have attended speeches, debates and concerts at Hart House.

Sunlight fills Knox College Chapel during a Christmas concert of the engineering faculty's Skule Choir.

21 Sussex Court holds office space for several student organizations, like The Varsity newspaper.

Teefy House, a residence hall of St. Michael's College, is home to female first-year undergraduate students.

William Lyon Mackenzie King, the longest-serving Prime Minister in Canadian history with over 21 years in office, BA, MA

Lester B. Pearson, Canadian Prime Minister and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957, BA

Paul Martin, 21st Canadian Prime Minister, LLB

John Kenneth Galbraith, noted economist and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism, B.Sc.(Agr.)

John Charles Fields, mathematician and the founder of the prestigious Fields Medal

Harold Innis, professor of political economy, helped develop the staples thesis and the Toronto School of communication theory

Frederick Banting, Nobel Laureate in Medicine and the first person to use insulin on humans, MD

Roberta Bondar, CSA astronaut and the first Canadian female in space, PhD

Julie Payette, CSA astronaut and the 29th Governor General of Canada, MASc

Jennie Smillie Robertson, First female surgeon in Canada, MD

It receives the most annual scientific research funding and endowment of any Canadian university and is one of two members of the Association of American Universities outside the United States, the other being McGill University in Montreal.

Bryan Rust (far right) shoots the puck towards the goal in an attempt to score for his team, as goaltender Braden Holtby tries to protect the net by making a save

Ice hockey

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Team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport.

A winter scene by Jan van Goyen from the 17th century

Winter landscape, with skaters playing IJscolf (Hendrick Avercamp, the 17th-century Dutch painter)

"Ye Gude Olde Days" from Hockey: Canada's Royal Winter Game, 1899

Members of the Montreal Victorias in 1881

An ice hockey game held at McGill University in 1884

Matthews Arena in Boston remains the oldest indoor ice hockey arena still in operation

A ice hockey game between Berliner Schlittschuhclub and Brussels Royal IHSC, January 1910

Traditional layout of an ice hockey rink surface

Over the years, the NHL has made changes to its playing surface. Today, an NHL rink includes a trapezoid behind the goal line and a blue painted area in front of the goal.

VTB Arena is an example of an indoor ice hockey arena. The arena is used by HC Dynamo Moscow.

Players from the South Carolina Stingrays perform a line change. A line change is a substitution of an entire line at once.

Scoreboard for a hockey game during the fourth period. If a game is tied at the end of the third period, several leagues and tournaments have teams play additional sudden death overtime periods.

Several leagues and tournaments have implemented the shootout as a means to determine a winner, if the game remains tied after an extra overtime period

$An ice hockey player enters the penalty box. Players may be sent to the penalty box for rule infractions, forcing their team to play with one less player for a specified time.$

$A skater taking a penalty shot, with a referee in the background. A referee may award a player with a penalty shot if they assess an infraction stopped the player from a clear scoring opportunity$

A referee calls a delayed penalty, which sees play continue until a goal is scored, or the opposing team regains control of the puck

Officials working under a four-official system. Orange armbands are worn by the referees to distinguish them from the lineswomen.

Models with the protective equipment worn by ice hockey skaters; such as a helmet, shoulder pads, elbow pads, gloves, hockey pants, and shin guards.

An injured skater being attended to after hitting the endboards. Because ice hockey is a full-contact sport, and involves players moving at high speeds, injuries can occur during play.

Youths being taught how to properly deliver a check in ice hockey

An NHL fan exhibit, where guests attempt to deflect the puck in order to score

A goalie heads to the bench in order to allow for an extra attacker

Fighting in ice hockey is officially prohibited in the rules, although it continues to be an established tradition in the sport in North America

Women playing ice hockey, c. 1888. The daughter of Lord Stanley of Preston, Lady Isobel Gathorne-Hardy, is visible in white.

Members of the Buffalo Beauts and the Minnesota Whitecaps during the 2019 Isobel Cup championship game for the NWHL, now known as the Premier Hockey Federation.

Medal ceremony for the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Advert for the 2016 NHL All-Star Game outside Bridgestone Arena, featuring players from its clubs based in Canada and the United States

Pre-game warmups prior to a Memorial Cup game. The tourney serves as the championship for the major junior Canadian Hockey League.

A Russian stamp commemorating the Gagarin Cup, which is presented to the KHL's playoff champion. The KHL is the largest ice hockey league in Eurasia.

Players from the ZSC Lions line up prior to a game. The club plays in the Swiss National League A.

Alexander Ovechkin of the Russian men's hockey team moves the puck as Czech Republic's Filip Kuba defends against him, during the 2010 Olympics

Skaters from the Finnish and Belorussian men's ice hockey teams shortly after a face-off during the 2016 IIHF World Championship. The IIHF is an annual national team tournament.

The Big Chill at the Big House was a collegiate ice hockey game played at Michigan Stadium in 2010. The game set the attendance record for ice hockey games

The match between Ilves (yellow and green) and Tappara (blue and orange) on December 3, 2021, at Nokia Arena in Tampere, Finland

A game of pond hockey being played in Lac-Beauport, Quebec

On March 3, 1875, the first organized indoor game was played at Montreal's Victoria Skating Rink between two nine-player teams, including James Creighton and several McGill University students.

The Montreal Neurological Institute wraps around one end of Molson Stadium.

Percival Molson Memorial Stadium

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Outdoor football stadium in Downtown Montreal, on the slopes of Mount Royal, in the borough of Ville-Marie.

Montreal Alouettes cheerleaders entertain the crowd during a timeout in a game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on July 6, 2006, at Molson Stadium

Named in honour of Percival Molson, and owned by McGill University, it was the home of the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League from 1954 to 1967 and again since 1998.

McGill University Faculty of Law

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Old Chancellor Day Hall in the foreground (and New Chancellor Day Hall in the background) is one of the buildings which house the Faculty of Law of McGill University.

The Faculty of Law is one of the professional graduate schools of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue

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On-island suburb located at the western tip of the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada.

Sainte-Anne's main street runs along the shore.

Galipeault Bridge between Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue and l'île Perrot. July 20, 1948.

The Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Canal and boardwalk. Linking Lake Saint-Louis and Lake of Two Mountains at the mouth of the Ottawa River, the canal was an integral part of the Montreal-Ottawa-Kingston inland shipping route from its opening in 1843. Today, it is used essentially for pleasure boating.

Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue is also home to John Abbott College and McGill University's Macdonald Campus, which includes the J. S. Marshall Radar Observatory and the Canadian Aviation Heritage Centre as well as about 2 sqkm of farmland which separates the small town from neighbouring Baie-d'Urfé.